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OT: My mail is down temporarily
Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:31:25 -0700 rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Dan M...
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Anyone who has sent e-mail to me recently, I'm not ignoring you, really! I
use my work mail server to handle my outgoing e-mail, and it died this morning. I've got it rebuilt now to the point of accepting incoming messages, it's just not allowing outgoing messages yet. That means I can read e-mail sent to my catfolks.net and smurgle.net mailboxes, I just can't reply to them. Monday morning I warned the boss that the mail server had started sending me error messages about the disk drives and I needed to do some maintenance work. He said, "No, let's put that off a while. Continue working on the web server transition." Ok, that's what I did. This morning while I was driving in to the office the boss called and said "I can't connect to the mail server." Surprise! Remember I warned you that it was having problems and needed to be serviced? That's why! 2 of the 3 drives in the RAID array died. That means that we lost everything that hadn't been backed up. I had to install new drives, rebuild the operating system, reinstall the mail server software, and reconfigure everything. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! polonca12000...
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